Naomi Nix

Like, they most likely have their own phones.

They might have their own kids.

They themselves, like many of us, may have, you know, had to sort of battle or have these conversations with themselves of like, how much am I using my phone?

Which apps do I want to use?

I think a lot of us can relate to these questions about phone usage and screen time.

You know, what this case does is, again, puts that question, you know, to the courts, which is like, are companies more responsible, more liable for the impact their services are having on young people?

And this isn't just a new scandal with new internal documents or new whistleblowers, you know, further shedding light on the ways these companies operate.

This is sort of a new, potentially new avenue for people who think the companies need to be held more accountable to force or expand that liability.

And that they made it to trial in this far is an accomplishment in of itself.

Whether they'll win, you know, who knows?

And those harms ranged anything from depression and anxiety to even more tragic scenarios like untimely deaths because maybe their teenager fell victim to a sextortion scheme and committed suicide after that.

or they participated in a TikTok challenge that was dangerous.

And so she's really like the first test case in this theory about whether social media addiction can both be proved and proven legally.

And whether if there is such a thing as social media addiction, whether that's what's actually driving some of the mental health issues that teenagers have been experiencing.

And so what we're going to see in this trial is executives talking about the decisions they made to keep people on the platform.

We're going to see the internal research about how teens are affected by their products.